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A short obituary note for Mary MacSwiney (Máire Nic Shuibhne) published in the 'Cork University Record’ in December 1944.

A clipping of an obituary article titled ‘A Great Gaelic Scholar / Death of the Very Rev. Dr. O’Hickey’ (‘Clonmel Nationalist’, 22 Nov. 1916). The opposite page has a print of Fr. Michael O’Hickey with a manuscript annotation which reads ‘Born at Carrickbeg, Carrick-on-Suir, 12th March 1961. Died at Portlaw, Co. Waterford 19th November 1916. Ordained priest in Waterford 1884. Appointed Professor of Irish, Maynooth College 1896’.

An image of an ocean liner docked at a port in front of railway yard and an industrial area. The location of the port is not given.

A view of Upper O'Connell Street looking towards Nelson's Pillar located in the centre of the street.

An image of the Old Church Cemetery near Cobh in County Cork. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Old Church Cove, Lusitania Victims’. The photograph is also dated (26 August 1935).

An image of Oldtown Bridge and in the distance, the Cathedral of St. Eunan and St. Columba in Letterkenny, County Donegal. Oldtown Bridge, a triple-arch road bridge over the River Swilly, was built in about 1720.

A profile of the sculptor Oliver Sheppard by John Crampton Walker published in ‘Irish Life’ (19 January 1917). The article includes an image of Sheppard’s ‘The Death of Cuchulainn’ (1911-2).

An image of individuals (possibly a family group) on a beach near Cape Town in South Africa.

Two women walking along a forested road probably near the Capuchin Friary at Rochestown in County Cork.

An image captioned 'Dominion Monarch / 1947'. The photograph shows a line-crossing ceremony on the ship, an initiation rite that commemorates a person's first crossing of the Equator. Built in England between 1937 and 1939, the 'Dominion Monarch' was a passenger liner which regularly operated services between Britain and ports in the southern hemisphere (particularly in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand).